Brain damage can take on many shapes and it could also derive from many causes. The one thing that is well-known is that any type of brain damage will create a life-altering experience for the victim and the victim’s family. One of the origins of brain damage can surge from a medical negligence. Typically, when a medical negligence is so extreme that it causes a patient to suffer damages like financial expenses, and physical pain, the medical professional who was the contributing factor for their brain damage will be found to have been medically negligent and can go through a litigation process.

While a common knowledge of malpractice that leads to brain damage is the restriction of oxygen, other occurrences performed by a medical professional cause brain damage like a negligence while someone is under the knife. Brain damage coming from a medical negligence can be the direct cause for the victim to file a litigation for medical malpractice with a Jacksonville attorney that understands the extremely difficult concepts and laws that have been attributed to medical malpractice cases. The sooner the malpractice lawyer is contacted, the faster the victim will obtain compensation for damage that they have had to endure.

Brain Damage Can Derive from Medical Negligence

Medical negligence can play a major role in a patient acquiring brain damage. Some medical negligence’s that can take place by a health care professional include:

Lack of or improper prenatal care for expectant mother

Negligence during drugs prescriptions or administration

Misdiagnosing or a lack of diagnosing a medical condition

Surgical procedure complications

Anesthesia being administered incorrectly

Lack of detecting infant hemorrhages

Not treating a maternal infection

Inadequate administration of epidural

Not treating preeclampsia

Not diagnosing diabetes

Not diagnosing heart attacks; and

More

These are just some malpractice’s that a health care practitioner can commit while they are aiding a patient.

Brain Damage Information

Between the year 2002 and 2006, 1.7 million individuals sustained some form of brain damage

Out of the 1.7 million individuals, 52,000 resulted in death

Out of the 1.7 million individuals, 275,000 were hospitalized

Out of the 1.7 million individuals, 1,365,000 visited the emergency department

Brain damage affects males more than it does females

Recoverable Damages After Brain Damage Negligence

The typical damages that a victim of a brain damage negligence can recover include specific general, and in some cases, punitive damage. The severity of the medical negligence and the damages that the victim obtains will be two contributing factors to the amount they receive.

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